[Opinion] WA city takes sexual assault survivor to court for harassment

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WA city takes sexual assault survivor to court for harassment

This wasn’t the day in court that Sharilyn Lux had envisioned. For one, she was sitting at her friend’s dining room table, staring at a judge through a little box on Zoom, without a lawyer beside her. More importantly, the hearing wasn’t about the rape that she had reported five years earlier. There would be no verdict for her rapist, no consequences for the police who’d failed to find a suspect, no accountability for the city officials seemingl…